给
gěi
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
Traditional: 給
To give, to hand something to someone. The receiver comes first, then the thing: 给我一本书 'give me a book'. Before another verb it works as 'to' or 'for' someone: 给我打电话 'phone me', 给妈妈买东西 'buy things for Mum'.
Cho, đưa cho ai một thứ gì. Người nhận đứng trước, vật đứng sau, giống tiếng Việt: 给我一本书 (cho tôi một quyển sách). Còn khi làm giới từ “cho” thì cụm 给… đứng trước động từ, ngược với tiếng Việt: 给我打电话 (gọi điện cho tôi).
VerbRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “给” mean?
To give, to hand something to someone. The receiver comes first, then the thing: 给我一本书 'give me a book'. Before another verb it works as 'to' or 'for' someone: 给我打电话 'phone me', 给妈妈买东西 'buy things for Mum'.
Is “给” formal or informal?
给 is generally neutral.